I said, "Master, will these torments be increased,
or lessened, on the final Judgment Day,
or will the pain be just the same as now?”
And he: “Remember your philosophy:
the closer a thing comes to its perfection, more keen will be its pleasure or its pain.
Although this cursed race of punished souls shall never know the joy of true perfection, more perfect will their pain be then than now."
Dante, The Divine Comedy: Inferno. Canto VI
or lessened, on the final Judgment Day,
or will the pain be just the same as now?”
And he: “Remember your philosophy:
the closer a thing comes to its perfection, more keen will be its pleasure or its pain.
Although this cursed race of punished souls shall never know the joy of true perfection, more perfect will their pain be then than now."
Dante, The Divine Comedy: Inferno. Canto VI
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